TITLE: Woodlands of Charnwood Forest in infrared.

Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England. Based around an ancient area of Pre-Cambrian rocks it was once a widespread deciduous forest but now consists of smaller areas of woodland including some ancient woods and areas of special scientific interest.

AUTHOR: Bill Allsopp (United Kingdom)

A passionate landscape photographer I am out at every opportunity and travel around the country as well as locally. I used to photograph purely in film, both colour and monochrome and have used medium format, rangefinders, DSLR's and now delighted to have adopted the Fuji X system. I can't ever imagine the need to move away from that. Gradually I have focussed more and more on pictorial work and Infrared. Both help me show the beauty I see in the British Landscape to its best.

I have come to the understanding that, even for landscape photography, the broad view is often not the best view. The less you include in a frame the more you see of what really matters. That concentration on subject matter is what gives impact to an image. Sometimes however the view in front of one just demands you use all of it.

Above all, in the words of Belgian pictorialist Leonard Misonne "Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing; light is everything."